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Code pleading stripped out most of the legal fictions that had encrusted common law pleading by requiring parties to plead " ultimate facts.

" This means that to plead a cause of action, the pleader has to plead each element and also allege specific facts which, if proven with evidence at trial, would constitute proof of that element.

Failure to provide such detail could lead to dismissal of the case if the defendant successfully demurred to the complaint on the basis that it merely stated " legal conclusions " or " evidentiary facts.